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1815

Abolitionist, feminist, and newspaper publisher Jane Grey Swisshelm is born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Minnesota in 1857 and established the St. Cloud Visiter and, later, the St. Cloud Democrat. During the Civil War she moved to Washington, DC, and become a nurse. She died in 1884.
From The Minnesota Book of Days (Minnesota Historical Society Press).

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